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Czech names project update: data entry, part 1

 Figured I might as well actually keep notes on what progress I'm making on this project! As a recap, I'm working on pulling the names out of various data sources for 14th-16th century Czechia, categorizing them by year and by gender, and looking for patterns both in the formation of the bynames and in the construction of the names as a whole. The first source I'm working with is Marta Štefková's Antroponyma v urbářích z 15.–17. století  ( Proper Names in Urbars of the 15th–17th centuries,  https://is.muni.cz/th/u1ye5/ ). This paper includes an index of names, with the full list of names from each year of her data (1483, 1581, and 1695); focusing on SCA period means I don't care about the names from 1695 and would prefer to exclude them from my own data. Since I want to do my own analysis of these names, and this sort of data works best in spreadsheets, I started by copying Štefková's list of names from 1483 and 1581 into my own spreadsheet. Each year in Štefko